Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Far better is it to know everything of a little than a little of everything.

Pickering

The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.

Milton, John

We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can -- namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

Teresa of Avila, St.

Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.

Fuller, Thomas

During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.

Einstein, Albert

The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.

Canetti, Elias

We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.

Rembrandt (Harmenszoon van Rijn)

You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.

Cronenberg, David

10.

He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

Colton, Charles Caleb

11.

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Einstein, Albert

12.

It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.

Manutius

13.

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Proverb, Italian

14.

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

15.

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

16.

Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.

Battista, Orlando A.

17.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

18.

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

19.

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

Sterne, Laurence

20.

Man knows more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

21.

Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; love by love.

Szasz, Thomas

22.

No man knows less than the man who knows it all

23.

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

Castaneda, Carlos

24.

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Cicero, Marcus T.

25.

A knowledge of men is the prime secret of business success.

Mills, Darius Ogden

26.

Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who do.

Mueller, Robert K.

27.

We have an opportunity for everyone in the world to have access to all the world's information. This has never before been possible. Why is ubiquitous information so profound? It's a tremendous equalizer. Information is power.

Eric Schmidt

28.

Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

Whipple, Edwin P.

29.

We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

Wheeler, John Archibald

30.

One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don't know what the hell's going on.

Simmons, Jake

31.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

33.

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Socrates

34.

Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all.

Baruch, Bernard M.

35.

The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

Johnson, Samuel

36.

Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

Samuel Johnson

37.

It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, Know thyself, and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

Eliot, George

38.

The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

Bradley, Francis H.

39.

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

40.

To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.

Caine, Mark

41.

The knowledge of God is far from the love of Him.

Miller, Keith

42.

There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

Young, Brigham

43.

Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc. with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hitherto unconscious and uncontrollable processes.

Maslow, Abraham H.

44.

Knowledge, humbles a great person, astonishes the common, and puffs up the small.

Saying

45.

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

La Fontaine, Jean De

46.

Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

47.

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Epictetus

48.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.

Samuel Johnson

49.

Knowledge is of two kinds: We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information about it.

Johnson, Samuel

50.

Knowledge always demands increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but will afterwards always propagate itself.